The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-19
A NATIONAL LEAGUE
OF REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN CLUBS
Organized By the Great Convention Ia New
rork-dood Work for the Psrty-asn.
uofr Receives an OvAtiun-A Blaine
OyCions-1on for vice President.

Special Correspondence d. W Intti'ictnea.
New YonK, Dec. l7.-lt goes without
uaylng that the National Convention o
Republican Clubs, which ha, been In SEQ
zion hore Tor three days and adjourned To-
day, will DO fruitful Of much good. 1twas
In tho language 1.-THE Tribune, m anomaly
In politics. There have been hundreds OIL
conventions since Jolrerson's famous De.
claratlon announced the birth Of a new
Nation, but there hI never been ono like
this. Representatives Of nearly all the
Important Republican clubs have asem.
bled, not In tho lntcreat Of any candidate
for tho Prnsidency, not for the purpose Of
furnishing the party with new definitions
oil principles, but chiefly Tor objects Of
practical organization. Theleaders OF this
movement have taken II for granted that
there will DO representative Republican
named Tor the Presidency who will DO
worthy In Rll respecIs oil thu support Of the
progressive elements Of American society.
They have also assumed that O patriotic
atand would be made by tho National
Convention on behalt o! American indus.
tiieo and all tho great prlnclplcu which
have boon embodied In Republican plat.
forms Of recent years. What they haye
regarded 10 oil most urgent nccassi,y Is
practical work In advances Of tha. conven.
ton Tor securing The election Of tho can.
didate and the Triumph OF the principles
ior which tho party stands. This work
they have themselves undertaken In tho
organization OF network Of Republican
cluDa which HhRll extend over tho Union,
II 10 not q work conducted In tho interest
Of any leader or faction OF tbs party, It
ia political organization in d primary form
ok nontha belo!u tho National Conven.
ton Ia held. -
a. THE WORK.
Tho schemo Of organization adopted by
tho convention Is Of the rimpleas kind.
There are leagues within .loasueS, circles
within circles, the uait being the Rspubli.
can club Of at leaat twenty members. All
tho clubs In q State are to be represented
IN Stats League; and all the State and
Territorial Lesgu-H arc 10 be subo,dirated
IN turn 10 the National League with Ito
annual convention. The objec. OF these
various representative bodies Ia to inrniah
. common basis for tho organization OF
Republican clubs as permanent ins,itu.
tons throughout tho Union. The Pfim.
Iose League founded In England BY Lard
Randolph Churchill hN grown from hum.
Die 6eginningeinto moa: powerful league
Of CONSERVATIVE clubs; and the Liberal
party, altribuiing It's defeat In 1856 largely
10 the operation Of theps popular political
circles, has recently formed a rival serles
Of associations for similar work, It will |
30 Orange, Indeed, II tho Republican
l'eagues organized does not prove as inilu.
ential and as formidable political agency
No other Of these English isssres. Il iaa
movement In tho right direction and
promisea to interest thousands Of new
voters In every state.E
BONE OTHER EYFrcrs.
But there nre other things tina. tho
svensr, particularly those OF yesterday
and to-dsy, mean. They are important
as not only being the beginning Of a vast
and harmonious organisation o! party
workers, but IS clearly demonstrating who
IS me choice oil the great majority Of Re.
publicano for standard bearer. The ecenes
In tho convention whenever the
name Of Blaine WAS mentioned wore only
'quslled at the Chicsso CONVENTION O. Isl
siter the nomination Of tho Plumed
Knight. The Significance OF 1t ia all the
more gratifying to the friends OF Mr.,
Blaine from the fact that the convention
was not a packed ono. 1t wns open TO tho
Republican Clubs Of the Nation, irrespec.
live Of their preferences In this regard,
And they came, representing thirty.two
States and huudIeda Of organizations, and
reflected the continent Of the party in
pvnrv perkiou